{"id":979,"date":"2013-05-29T22:13:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T22:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/?page_id=979"},"modified":"2026-05-28T20:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:38:18","slug":"yemi-soneye","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/writings\/poetry\/yemi-soneye\/","title":{"rendered":"Writings \/ Poetry: Yemi Soneye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>To See Her Full Like Filled Seats<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In a restaurant<br \/>\nyou both can\u2019t afford,<br \/>\nthis is the third dinner.<\/p>\n<p>The birds in your shirt<br \/>\nwant to leave.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s just the wind, you lie<br \/>\nas you heard he does<br \/>\nhis hair worn<br \/>\nlike hands of a moss.<\/p>\n<p>From smirk<br \/>\nlike poor god\u2019s<br \/>\nglimpsing through<br \/>\nthick curtains<br \/>\nyou look away<br \/>\nand from her<br \/>\ngrey eyes to not see<br \/>\nwhat they\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n<p>To see her full<br \/>\nlike filled seats<br \/>\nand master her<br \/>\nfor tomorrow&#8217;s long night<br \/>\nwhen time won&#8217;t be on the wall,<br \/>\nyou are here.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Closure<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I gave two sunsets<br \/>\nshape lives.<\/p>\n<p>Night declared, the girl<br \/>\nbangled by<br \/>\ncopper rays<br \/>\nyou are delivered<br \/>\nand the house darkened<br \/>\nto show the neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>Away, pigeons<br \/>\nswooshed from<br \/>\ncelestial eaves<br \/>\nleaving other girl<br \/>\nshut-eyed and curled<br \/>\nin her slit wrist.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Watching An Election<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Faces of the con<br \/>\nfell from hands<br \/>\non the wall<br \/>\nand lead away.<\/p>\n<p>An underground map,<br \/>\nof few years<br \/>\nin the city, she gropes the wall<br \/>\narrives miner<br \/>\nat the fluff<br \/>\nof despair underneath time.<\/p>\n<p>Thumbs stand<br \/>\nin the booth,<br \/>\nand straw-burn daylight.<\/p>\n<p>When it\u2019s almost done,<br \/>\nthe moon and the sun<br \/>\nclash like two enemies<br \/>\ncars in a fast movie.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><b>Moments<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Then sky pulled back<br \/>\nthe rainbow bowing night.<\/p>\n<p>Counting her eyelashes in the pane,<br \/>\nwild glint in the back seat<br \/>\nwent off down the rising street.<br \/>\nA slim tuft of feathers left<br \/>\na dead chick, billows above<br \/>\nto a new home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Walking<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I found joy<br \/>\nin the dark sitting<br \/>\nat a voice\u2019s feet.<\/p>\n<p>Raining, a mind<br \/>\npeace dumped<br \/>\nfew steps<br \/>\noutside the theatre<\/p>\n<p>walks away like walking out<br \/>\nof a nightmare<br \/>\nwhen he\u2019s outside with a foot,<br \/>\nhis body is saddled with you<br \/>\nand he\u2019s also inside you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To See Her Full Like Filled Seats In a restaurant you both can\u2019t afford, this is the third dinner. The birds in your shirt want to leave. It\u2019s just the wind, you lie as you heard he does his hair worn like hands of a moss. From smirk like poor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1359,"parent":229,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-979","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/979\/revisions\/1453"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}